Black Bottoms
Série de 6 photographies sur bâche vinyle - 200X150 chacune - 2010 - ©R&PJ+ADAGP
L’avoir est devenu plus fort que l’être. La place de l’objet dans nos vies n’a jamais été aussi forte. Seul l’individualisme rivalise avec le désir de posséder l’autre. La série de six photographies traitent de ça. Le fétiche, c’est l’objet, mais aussi l’autre transformé de sujet en objet. On ne peut pas parler de sexualité en faisant l’économie de la psychanalyse. Les bases même de la psychanalyse ont été remises en question par le structuralisme (plus particulièrement par Michel Foucault), imposant un recul, une méfiance de l’analyse normative. Dans ma pratique artistique, je n’ai pas la prétention de critiquer la psychanalyse, hormis en exacerbant ses principes jusqu’à la parodie. Le Surmoi et le Surtoi en est l’exemple type. Le fétichisme produit son esthétique de façon autonome, qu’il soit cuir ou sportwear. C’est la raison pour laquelle j’ai également joué avec ma fascination pour la peinture italienne de la Renaissance, et pour des peintres plus contemporains. Elle se lit dans cette série d’images, dans le choix des lumières, des fondus, des contrastes. L’utilisation du fond noir a été dictée à la fois par mon admiration pour Le Titien, Caravage ou Francis Bacon. J’ai bien sûr pensé à Gilbert & George et Pierre et Gilles. Pour le dire simplement, je me suis dit : que peux-tu faire de nouveau ? L’exhibition de mon couple est l’aboutissement d’un travail photographique où le vécu et l’intime se mêlent. J’ai sciemment repris les archétypes du porno gay. Car le consumérisme dicte chacun de nos actes, sexualité y comprise. A l’heure de Facebook, à la fois outil de voyeurisme, de censure et de délation, je veux un travail où les limites du privé explosent. Chaque image est tirée en très grand format : elle devient un objet. Se crée alors une mise en abîme car l’œuvre d’art est le fétiche par excellence.
To have became stronger than to be. The place of the object in our lives was never so strong. Only the individualism competes with the desire to possess the other one. The series of six photos deal with that. The idol, it is the object, but also the other one transformed by subject into object. We cannot speak about sexuality by saving the psychanalysis. Bases even of the psychanalysis were questioned by the structuralism (more particularly by Michel Foucault), imposing a drop, a distrust of the normative analysis. In my artistic practice, I do not claim to be able to criticize the Psychoanalysis, except by aggravating its principles until the parody. The « Sumoi » and the « Surtoi » is the typical example. The fetishism produces its aesthetics in a autonomous way, whether it is leather or sportwear. It is the reason for which I also played with my fascination for the Italian painting of XVIth Century, and for the more contemporary painters. It is read in this series of images, in the choice of the lights, the dissolves, the contrasts. The use of black bottom was dictated at the same time by my admiration for Titien, Caravaggio or Francis Bacon. I thought of course at Gilbert and George and Pierre and Gilles. To say it simply, I said myself : what can you make again ? The exhibition of my couple is the outcome of a photographic work where the lived and the intimacy get involved. I deliberately took back the archetypes of the gay porn. Because the consumerism dictates each of our acts, sexuality included. At the time of Facebook, at once at the same time tool of voyeurism, censorship and informing, I want a work where the limits of the private explode. Each image is printed in very big size : it becomes an object. A put in abyss builds up itself then because the work of art is the idol par excellence.
To have became stronger than to be. The place of the object in our lives was never so strong. Only the individualism competes with the desire to possess the other one. The series of six photos deal with that. The idol, it is the object, but also the other one transformed by subject into object. We cannot speak about sexuality by saving the psychanalysis. Bases even of the psychanalysis were questioned by the structuralism (more particularly by Michel Foucault), imposing a drop, a distrust of the normative analysis. In my artistic practice, I do not claim to be able to criticize the Psychoanalysis, except by aggravating its principles until the parody. The « Sumoi » and the « Surtoi » is the typical example. The fetishism produces its aesthetics in a autonomous way, whether it is leather or sportwear. It is the reason for which I also played with my fascination for the Italian painting of XVIth Century, and for the more contemporary painters. It is read in this series of images, in the choice of the lights, the dissolves, the contrasts. The use of black bottom was dictated at the same time by my admiration for Titien, Caravaggio or Francis Bacon. I thought of course at Gilbert and George and Pierre and Gilles. To say it simply, I said myself : what can you make again ? The exhibition of my couple is the outcome of a photographic work where the lived and the intimacy get involved. I deliberately took back the archetypes of the gay porn. Because the consumerism dictates each of our acts, sexuality included. At the time of Facebook, at once at the same time tool of voyeurism, censorship and informing, I want a work where the limits of the private explode. Each image is printed in very big size : it becomes an object. A put in abyss builds up itself then because the work of art is the idol par excellence.
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